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are in leaf only. Dr. Hooker's specimen from Kishengunge is the only one that gives 

 any information as to the structure of the panicle. Dr. Hamilton's, which is the only 

 other Indian one I have seen in flower, contains merely a single detached hranch of a 

 panicle. Mund's, from the Cape, is evidently in an abnormal leaf-bearing condition ; 

 and the only remaining flowering specimen, namely that from Burchell, contains two or 

 three detached branches of a panicle, lloxburgh states that the bamboo-workers of 

 Bengal consider this to be the very best Bamboo for building houses, scaffolding, &c., 

 but that in order to render it durable, it requires long immersion in water. 



15. B, FLEXTJOSA, Munro. Culmo florifero basi aphyllo, spinoso, 6-12-pedali ; panicula 



decomposita, ramulis tenuibus, ad nodes spiculas paucas, latas, compressas, multi- 

 floras gerentibus, rhachilla spiculee conspicua, valde flexuosa, glumis linearibus, 

 acutis, paleis hlantibiis, ovario rostrato ; foliis lanceolatis, brevibus. — " Humilis spi- 

 nosa," Osbeck in "Resa," 204 (1757). 



Hab. in China, circa Cantonem, no. 10,000, Hance ! ; Quantung, Sir G. Staunton ! in herb. Mas. Brit. 

 (folia tantum). v. s. 



Culmus siifFruticosus, " 6-13-pcdalis," spinosus, viridis, diamctro 1| lin., internodiis glabris, striatis, 2-3 

 poll, longis, ramis 1-3, cum spinis 1-2 (in inferioribus) ad nodes locatis. Folia parva, lanceolata) 

 maxima (in speciminibus visis) 2 poll, longa, 5-6 lin. lata, basi rotundata, petiolata, apice mucronato- 

 acuta, margine, prsecipue in foliis junioribus, longe ciliata, utrinque glabra, nervis secundariis 

 inconspicuis, utroque latere 3— i. Vagina glabrae vel hirsutse, striatse, mai'gine Iseves, infra petiolum 

 membrana ssepe tenuiter ciliata terminatse, ore ciliis tenuissimis cite caducis fimbriatse, ligula sub- 

 elongata, ssepe longe ciliata. Culmi floriferi dispositio ramornm ut in foliifero, ramulis simplicibus 

 vel compositis, foliis bine et inde sparsis, cito deciduis, spiculis in ramulis approximatis, inferioribus 

 gemiuis vel ternis, superioribus alternis, 10-1-i lin. longis, eximie compressis, sessilibus vel interdum 

 pedicellatis. SpicuJa 8-12-flora, flosculo inferiore interdum et superioribus 2-3 masculis vel neutris, 

 reliquis intermediis perfectis, hcrmapbroditis, distichis, divaricatis,^a/eis hiantibus, articulis rhacliillte 

 apertse, conspicuse, flexuoste longis, hirsutis, compressis ; glumis linearibus, acutis, ssepe distantibus. 

 Palea inferior rostrato-acuminata, glaberrima, nervis inconspicuis 7-9-11, in flosculis inferioribus 

 longe, in superioribus paulo, superiorem subcymbiformem, dorso canaliculatam, carinis plus minus 

 ciliatam superans. Squamula 3 subsequales, apice rotundato-obtusissimse, longe fimbriatse, ner- 

 vosse, nervis, ssepe curvatis, squamulse marginem perciu-rentibus. Stamina 6, filamenta basi ex- 

 pansa, antheris obtusis. Sty I its basi subbull)osus, primum indivisus, sed cito in stigmata 3 pidcher- 

 rime pcnicillata, infer ne nuda, fere ad bulbum 3-partitus. Carijopsis lineari-oblonga, vix 2 lin. 

 longa, apice glabra et basibus styli trifidi tricornuta. 



This has a different look from all other Bambusae. The perfect spicula has the rhachis 

 as much exposed as it often is in Brachypodium, to which it bears some resemblance. 

 The gaping paleas also give the plant a very peculiar appearance. Osbeck, in speaking 

 of this plant, collected during his travels in China in 1751, says that it is generally G 

 feet, but occasionally 12 feet, high, and that it is said to flower once in sixty years. 



16. B. Blumeana, Schultes, Syst. vii. 2. 1343 (1830). Culmo elongate, spinoso, pani- 

 cula " laterali " (Schult.), decomposita, patula, ramis plerumque solitariis, inferi- 

 oribus 15 poll, longis; spiculis vix compressis, verticillato-glomeratis, rhachillae 



